Project Grant 19279673424

The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a large-scale digitization project of moving image content held in its archives. Funded under the NEH's Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), the three-year project will digitize 3,336 performances, talks, classes, oral histories and special events recorded between 1992 and 2009 that are currently only...

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $123,700 Project Grant to Jacob's Pillow Dance, a non-profit dance company, to support its "JACOB'S PILLOW CURRICULUM IN MOTION" project. The grant was awarded on July 14, 2023, with a completion date of June 30, 2024. This grant funding supports Jacob's Pillow Dance's efforts to develop and improve literacy skills for children and students from birth through 12th grade in high-need local educational...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024). The grant will support personnel expenses to enable the organization to respond to and recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts, integrate arts...

This $149,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) supports the "Making the Digital Dance" project at the University of Alabama. The project aims to develop digital infrastructure and tools to increase access to archival dance information across four existing digital performing arts archives. Key project activities include: Prototyping a dance data commons based on the Wikidata integration model to...

The Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation will receive $978,876 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures program to make archival materials from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater accessible for restaging. The Foundation will catalog and digitize technical information needed to restage ballets, collect and analyze dramaturgical content and rights information for each work, and develop "dance capsules" comprising this collected...

This Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program, provides $260,952 to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation to continue the Alvin Ailey Choreographic Legacy Project. The Project will historically preserve choreography from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater repertory for restaging by professional dance companies and universities through cataloging production notes, performance histories, and...

The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded $423,597 under the Education Stabilization Fund Formula Grant program to the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation doing business as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The grant period runs from January 29, 2021 through January 28, 2022. Funding will support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's efforts to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic through the continuation of its educational...

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the presentation of dance artists at the Joyce Theater in New York, New York from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. This award was provided through the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024), which aims to support opportunities for public participation in the arts and arts education, integrate the arts with strategies...

Historic Deerfield, Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to expand its virtual and hybrid humanities programming. With this two-year award beginning Oct 1, 2021, Historic Deerfield will hire a new Digital Engagement Specialist and pursue infrastructure upgrades to deliver high-quality digital content and hybrid programming to worldwide audiences. Specific activities...

The American Film Institute (AFI) received a three-year, $750,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program. Through this funding, AFI will undertake an effort to document and provide intellectual access to short films from the silent and early sound film eras (1910-1933) as part of its authoritative AFI Catalog online resource. By including these short films, the AFI Catalog will illuminate...